What I want it for is programming. And I do a large portion of my programming in vim. Vim, ssh, and a crude text only web browser would suit my purposes perfectly.
No, you're right, I've never used an e-ink screen, and the refresh times might be too slow to accomplish what I'd like to accomplish with it.
All I really want to do is be able to sit outside and program on nice days. I've tried on laptops with many different types of screens, and the experience is lacking.
You (and AndersOSU) definitely have a point. Specialized devices definitely should have a market.
The current problem is that I (and obviously a few others) really would like a netbook with an e-ink screen. There currently isn't a device for sale (that I am aware of) that provides this. But there are devices for sale that could provide this.
The problem we have isn't with them providing a niche product, it's that there isn't an equivalent general purpose product available. The only current way to solve that problem is to open up a niche product.
Amazon and B&N are in a market where there is a demand that is not being fulfilled, and I think they'll both regret not fulfilling that demand when open devices start being built and they (possibly) become more popular than either of their niche products.
Until then, they have the problems of being in a market where people have to create their own solutions.
That's not the argument at all. The argument is that you should know what your customers want, and if you can give it to them, you should, and should price your products accordingly.
If you don't, they will go with another product or create a solution for themselves out of the materials that they have.
Yes, so you allow free internet usage... up to a point, or for certain things. Then you charge.
Doesn't that sound like any reasonable plan?
Instead, they create a device that could do what you want, but is limited by DRM and artificial restrictions. That is just asking for the device to be opened up, and now they've created the problem they could have solved by simply pricing bandwidth appropriately and increasing their revenue stream.
Although the impact is far less than they claim, I would imagine pirated movies hurt dvd sales more than box office, at least in the US.
Yes, and it should.
If I want to pirate a movie, I can go to a single site, find multiple options (1080p, 720p, ipod, ect) for just about every movie in existence. All of which are "in stock" and most of which I can download to my computer in less time it would take to drive to the store. The movie is presented to me without unskippable ads, without worry of scratching or losing, and can be archived without taking up space on my shelf.
All of this is free.
As most technical people are very aware, if I'm selling a product in a marketplace where a virtually identical product is available, I need to add value in order to get people to purchase through me instead of the competition. Adding value for movie studios is easy. They are selling legal copies and supporting the people who made the movies. The added value is already there. However, to add value, they need to provide an equivalent experience.
A sufficient amount of water or any other oxygen containing substance found in greater quantities on the other planets would explain the why the earth has so much atmospheric oxygen. Granted, that we know of, there is very little, but our understanding of what is contained on our planets is very limited. In addition, we're beginning to find evidence of oxygen in the form of water everywhere we look in areas where we hadn't found any before.
As far as Mars and Venus is concerned, CO2 has a pretty high concentration of 02 oddly enough. For the gas giants, hydrogen is much lighter than oxygen, and H2O contains quite a bit of H. Since we can only see what has floated up to the top of the gas giants, it really isn't a surprise that what we are able to measure easily is hydrogen.
Our atmosphere would have a much lower percentage of oxygen if plants hadn't pulled such a large amount of carbon out of the air and if our temperatures were low enough to keep all water vapor frozen and out of the atmosphere. That of course doesn't account for all of the differences by any means, but what we don't know about the composition of other planets (or our own for that matter) is far greater than what we currently know.
Certainly. I plan to launch a series of 25 geosynchronous satellites providing broadband internet access to the entire world. It will be independent from any government's control or oversight. I'm going to call it the Archangel Network....What?
Exactly. I, and I'm sure many others, spent countless hours studying web technologies in the late 90's. I was starting to become quite an expert in typography, accessibility, interface design, and the myriad of technologies necessary to create complete web applications. Then I started trying to develop standards based web pages that worked in IE.
There could be one serious advantage of everyone's personal dirt being available at all times. Eventually people would have to stop pretending to be so perfect. People make mistakes, and currently as that isn't currently ok with society, everyone spends most of their lives trying to hide those mistakes from everyone else.
I think that's a larger detriment to us personally and to society as a whole than not being able to hide those things. If all of our dirt was public knowledge, we probably would be a bit more understanding.
Exactly, and make sure it's single function and black and white if you don't print in color often, less things to break that way. I picked up the Brother 2070N myself a few years ago. Works with or without drivers, works great in Linux, perfectly reliable for me (and others based on reviews), and cheap enough to not worry too much about it if it doesn't last more than a few years. Plus it has a toner drum available if you do a lot of printing. I'm still perfectly happy with this one, but there might be a better one available now, I'd still be looking for the same features and it would be what I compared everything else against.
If it's something I care enough to pirate it's something I'd care enough to buy, rent, borrow, demo, or trial legally, if piracy weren't an option.
This is true for 99% of all instances of piracy.
Absolutely incorrect. That might be true if piracy wasn't easier and faster than buying, renting, borrowing, or demoing.
But its significantly easier, which means that if the item wasn't worth your time to get, pirating becomes an easier and faster option. That alone is going to swing more than %1 of the instances of piracy.
And then it's free. If you think people don't get things just because they're free regardless of whether or not they would ever need, use, or even think about the item again, then you don't know people.
"If I weren't going to pirate it, I wouldn't have bought it otherwise.""
For there to be any difference (because after piracy, the copyright owner can still sell the original copy, which is not true in the case of physical theft) you basically have to believe the line above by the pirate. And if you believe that bullshit, you're beyond help.
Not true. Is there any software, movie, or music that slightly interests you that you would never purchase?
If it's software that could save you time (Photoshop over Gimp for example), then pirating it didn't remove a sale, it only saved you time.
If it's a movie or music, you might find that you liked it instead of just never knowing about it. Once again, you gained, and nobody lost.
If you can't think of anything that might interest you that you will never purchase, then you either have too much money, or too few interests.
I just built a new computer for my parents with an Intel boxdg41ty, E6300, 4 gigs of Patriot DDR2, a 1 terabyte Seagate drive, and a Corsair 400 watt power supply for about 275 after rebates and shipping.
It isn't a gaming machine, but it works beautifully for just about anything the average non gamer will throw at it.
It sounds like all the press outlets are creaming themselves for Win7, and I can't figure out why.
Depends on the press outlets. I'm happy with Windows 7 because my expectations were so ridiculously low. I was just hoping for a 64 bit Windows OS that would install without a ridiculous amount of errors and would have a little bit of driver and software support. I got that and as a bonus it's installation environment has finally surpassed that of Suse 7.1. Finally, I can, if I want to boot out of Linux to play games, take advantage of more than 3 gigs of memory and get full use out of my CPU.
Some outlets will be happy because it isn't quite as much of a steaming pile as Vista was. Others, well, I'm assuming they're happy because of the pay-checks they're receiving.
The difference is in windows, you can look around if you don't know where it is. Hand over a fresh install of windows and tell the user to adjust their resolution. It might take a while the first time, but they'll dig through the right folder/menu/tab eventually. Now fire up a command window and tell them to do the same, and they'll have no idea where to even start looking.
The same user can do the exact same thing in OSX or linux. It's right there in the menu. System Menu > Preferences > Display for me here, and I have a gui to change my resolution and adjust both my monitors.
In Windows 7, a very similar menu is available under Start Menu > Control Panel > Appearance and Personalization > Display > Adjust Resolution
My gui seems if anything slightly easier for someone to find, and I'm running linux here. If you can find it under Windows, you can find it under linux.
Android isn't on AT&T yet, I wouldn't be surprised if they hold off as long as they possibly can. I know Apple would like that, and the two have a pretty sweet deal together at the moment.
That said, my next phone will be on Android, and that'll be enough to switch me from AT&T if they don't get one in the near future.
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What I want it for is programming. And I do a large portion of my programming in vim. Vim, ssh, and a crude text only web browser would suit my purposes perfectly.
No, you're right, I've never used an e-ink screen, and the refresh times might be too slow to accomplish what I'd like to accomplish with it.
All I really want to do is be able to sit outside and program on nice days. I've tried on laptops with many different types of screens, and the experience is lacking.
You (and AndersOSU) definitely have a point. Specialized devices definitely should have a market.
The current problem is that I (and obviously a few others) really would like a netbook with an e-ink screen. There currently isn't a device for sale (that I am aware of) that provides this. But there are devices for sale that could provide this.
The problem we have isn't with them providing a niche product, it's that there isn't an equivalent general purpose product available. The only current way to solve that problem is to open up a niche product.
Amazon and B&N are in a market where there is a demand that is not being fulfilled, and I think they'll both regret not fulfilling that demand when open devices start being built and they (possibly) become more popular than either of their niche products.
Until then, they have the problems of being in a market where people have to create their own solutions.
That's not the argument at all. The argument is that you should know what your customers want, and if you can give it to them, you should, and should price your products accordingly.
If you don't, they will go with another product or create a solution for themselves out of the materials that they have.
Yes, so you allow free internet usage... up to a point, or for certain things. Then you charge.
Doesn't that sound like any reasonable plan?
Instead, they create a device that could do what you want, but is limited by DRM and artificial restrictions. That is just asking for the device to be opened up, and now they've created the problem they could have solved by simply pricing bandwidth appropriately and increasing their revenue stream.
Although the impact is far less than they claim, I would imagine pirated movies hurt dvd sales more than box office, at least in the US.
Yes, and it should.
If I want to pirate a movie, I can go to a single site, find multiple options (1080p, 720p, ipod, ect) for just about every movie in existence. All of which are "in stock" and most of which I can download to my computer in less time it would take to drive to the store. The movie is presented to me without unskippable ads, without worry of scratching or losing, and can be archived without taking up space on my shelf.
All of this is free.
As most technical people are very aware, if I'm selling a product in a marketplace where a virtually identical product is available, I need to add value in order to get people to purchase through me instead of the competition. Adding value for movie studios is easy. They are selling legal copies and supporting the people who made the movies. The added value is already there. However, to add value, they need to provide an equivalent experience.
Currently, they aren't even close.
A sufficient amount of water or any other oxygen containing substance found in greater quantities on the other planets would explain the why the earth has so much atmospheric oxygen. Granted, that we know of, there is very little, but our understanding of what is contained on our planets is very limited. In addition, we're beginning to find evidence of oxygen in the form of water everywhere we look in areas where we hadn't found any before.
As far as Mars and Venus is concerned, CO2 has a pretty high concentration of 02 oddly enough. For the gas giants, hydrogen is much lighter than oxygen, and H2O contains quite a bit of H. Since we can only see what has floated up to the top of the gas giants, it really isn't a surprise that what we are able to measure easily is hydrogen.
Our atmosphere would have a much lower percentage of oxygen if plants hadn't pulled such a large amount of carbon out of the air and if our temperatures were low enough to keep all water vapor frozen and out of the atmosphere. That of course doesn't account for all of the differences by any means, but what we don't know about the composition of other planets (or our own for that matter) is far greater than what we currently know.
The error means that users of Windows 7 and earlier operating systems...
Whew! I'm so relieved I'm running Windows 8 on my main pc. My server running Windows 3.11 is probably in trouble though, I'll have to see...
Certainly. I plan to launch a series of 25 geosynchronous satellites providing broadband internet access to the entire world. It will be independent from any government's control or oversight. I'm going to call it the Archangel Network. ...What?
Exactly. I, and I'm sure many others, spent countless hours studying web technologies in the late 90's. I was starting to become quite an expert in typography, accessibility, interface design, and the myriad of technologies necessary to create complete web applications. Then I started trying to develop standards based web pages that worked in IE.
So, now I'm a database developer.
There could be one serious advantage of everyone's personal dirt being available at all times. Eventually people would have to stop pretending to be so perfect. People make mistakes, and currently as that isn't currently ok with society, everyone spends most of their lives trying to hide those mistakes from everyone else.
I think that's a larger detriment to us personally and to society as a whole than not being able to hide those things. If all of our dirt was public knowledge, we probably would be a bit more understanding.
This was in Bosnia. I'm pretty sure the guy was just bored.
I got a ticket for driving 8 in a 5 mile per hour zone on a military base once... The speedometer on the vehicle I was driving started at 10.
I tore it up and told him to bring it up to my commanding officer if he'd like to. Never heard about it again.
Exactly, and make sure it's single function and black and white if you don't print in color often, less things to break that way. I picked up the Brother 2070N myself a few years ago. Works with or without drivers, works great in Linux, perfectly reliable for me (and others based on reviews), and cheap enough to not worry too much about it if it doesn't last more than a few years. Plus it has a toner drum available if you do a lot of printing. I'm still perfectly happy with this one, but there might be a better one available now, I'd still be looking for the same features and it would be what I compared everything else against.
It can if you aren't writing with graphite.... http://www.grand-illusions.com/acatalog/Metal_Pen.html
Stephen Hawking isn't British, that's obvious to anyone. He doesn't have an accent.
And somehow I think you'd have a hard time marketing a Redundant Array of Inexpensive Pigeons...
32 bytes, 256 bits..
Don't you think she looks tired?
If it's something I care enough to pirate it's something I'd care enough to buy, rent, borrow, demo, or trial legally, if piracy weren't an option.
This is true for 99% of all instances of piracy.
Absolutely incorrect. That might be true if piracy wasn't easier and faster than buying, renting, borrowing, or demoing.
But its significantly easier, which means that if the item wasn't worth your time to get, pirating becomes an easier and faster option. That alone is going to swing more than %1 of the instances of piracy.
And then it's free. If you think people don't get things just because they're free regardless of whether or not they would ever need, use, or even think about the item again, then you don't know people.
Your 99% figure is simply wrong.
Piracy = lost sale.
"If I weren't going to pirate it, I wouldn't have bought it otherwise.""
For there to be any difference (because after piracy, the copyright owner can still sell the original copy, which is not true in the case of physical theft) you basically have to believe the line above by the pirate. And if you believe that bullshit, you're beyond help.
Not true. Is there any software, movie, or music that slightly interests you that you would never purchase?
If it's software that could save you time (Photoshop over Gimp for example), then pirating it didn't remove a sale, it only saved you time.
If it's a movie or music, you might find that you liked it instead of just never knowing about it. Once again, you gained, and nobody lost.
If you can't think of anything that might interest you that you will never purchase, then you either have too much money, or too few interests.
I just built a new computer for my parents with an Intel boxdg41ty, E6300, 4 gigs of Patriot DDR2, a 1 terabyte Seagate drive, and a Corsair 400 watt power supply for about 275 after rebates and shipping. It isn't a gaming machine, but it works beautifully for just about anything the average non gamer will throw at it.
You wouldn't happen to know where I could apply for a job looking for this hidden data, would you?
I've had this job, and you don't want it. I'm not kidding, you really don't want it.
That's why you make your encryption passwords something like: ThereIsNoWayI'mGivingYouMyPasswords!
It sounds like all the press outlets are creaming themselves for Win7, and I can't figure out why.
Depends on the press outlets. I'm happy with Windows 7 because my expectations were so ridiculously low. I was just hoping for a 64 bit Windows OS that would install without a ridiculous amount of errors and would have a little bit of driver and software support. I got that and as a bonus it's installation environment has finally surpassed that of Suse 7.1. Finally, I can, if I want to boot out of Linux to play games, take advantage of more than 3 gigs of memory and get full use out of my CPU.
Some outlets will be happy because it isn't quite as much of a steaming pile as Vista was. Others, well, I'm assuming they're happy because of the pay-checks they're receiving.
The difference is in windows, you can look around if you don't know where it is. Hand over a fresh install of windows and tell the user to adjust their resolution. It might take a while the first time, but they'll dig through the right folder/menu/tab eventually. Now fire up a command window and tell them to do the same, and they'll have no idea where to even start looking.
The same user can do the exact same thing in OSX or linux. It's right there in the menu. System Menu > Preferences > Display for me here, and I have a gui to change my resolution and adjust both my monitors.
In Windows 7, a very similar menu is available under Start Menu > Control Panel > Appearance and Personalization > Display > Adjust Resolution
My gui seems if anything slightly easier for someone to find, and I'm running linux here. If you can find it under Windows, you can find it under linux.
Android isn't on AT&T yet, I wouldn't be surprised if they hold off as long as they possibly can. I know Apple would like that, and the two have a pretty sweet deal together at the moment.
That said, my next phone will be on Android, and that'll be enough to switch me from AT&T if they don't get one in the near future.